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10 Dec 2016 2:53:18pm

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Love reading your factual contributions silly. You can add the recent revelation that currently Arctic temperatures are 5 degrees Celsius above normal for this time of year. One ought, I believe, to actually be wary of, if not alarmed by, the possibility that rapid changes are currently afoot. We know from the paleo-climate record that great changes, of the order of several degrees can occur within a few years, and there have been very few forcings in history of the magnitude and rapidity of the greenhouse gases added by human activity to the atmosphere over the last few hundred years. Yet the imbecile denialists grow yet more fevered, yet more ridiculous in their fabrications. Someone, somewhere, in the denialist industry, must have got a pat on the head for inventing the submarine volcanoes furphy, so certain to impress the denialist numbskulls, and absolutely guaranteed to be trotted out over and over, no matter how many experts reject it. All grist to the mill. Delay, confuse and refute, endlessly, but why? What sort of creature gambles with human fate, even amongst growing certainty, out of ideological fanaticism or pecuniary interest? And what does it say about our society that the media is so firmly in the hands of the most vulgar,dishonest and shameless deniers?